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Happy 89th Forrest……

Forrest Fenn will be celebrating his 89th birthday Today, Thursday, August 22…

Thanks for being here Forrest. I am in awe of your accomplishments as well as your fishing skills, and sincerely appreciate your treasure hunt…it has provided opportunities and joy for hundreds of thousands of searchers…including me!!

By the way…Wouldn’t it be a nice tradition to hand out a new clue on your birthday??…
just sayin!

“Happy Birthday Forrest” and thank you for giving me a chance to search in your wonderful adventure of a lifetime. Wishing you many smiles today and hoping you will have a chance to reflect on the joy you have brought to many.

Have a great , Happy and memorable Birthday. I’m coming to New Mexico in a couple days and maybe we will run into each other. Possibly have a drink together. I too am a Leo, just had my 69th on the 14th.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FORREST
Thanks for all the thrills, maybe one day one of those will turn into a blaze and more! The chase has most definitely made me stronger, wiser and more daring. I would have never been to the Rockies once, forget about 13 times without your magical endeavor.

Forrest, you’ve managed to outwit the wittiest of witty people all around you & they don’t hold ONE CANDLE to yours! I think you DO plan to “take ‘IT’ wit’ you”. Take another 15 years to work on THAT poem to make sure it’s done YOUR WAY! Happy B-day! LEE

Thinking of paddling a canoe on the Madison River, all the way around the shore of Hebgen Lake, and then doing the put in below the home of Brown thing on the Upper Madison, all the way down into Hebgen Lake. And, yes, we will be fly fishing all along the way, to honor you, your birthday and The Chase, Forrest!

I hope you have a beautiful birthday today, Forrest. You made that awesome catch in that pic Dal posted on the Madison River near Cameron, didn’t you? It wasn’t catch and release, back then. So you could feed your family back at the Airstream at the West Fork Campground. Nice.

Happy birthday Forrest!
Thanks for the Chase. My family and I are in West Yellowstone today, on our way to check out where I think the hidey spot might be and enjoying some of the greatness this country has to offer. Wish us luck.

Good Birthday Mr. Fenn! So say we all take a shot of whatever we’ve got at 6:00. Feel the presents of the community. I’m glad the chase has gone on as it has. It’s given us all a chance to really get to Know you, indubitably. g

Happy 89th Birthday, Mr. Forrest Fenn, this is my poem to you inspired by your thrill of the chase…… It has only 4 stanzas though.

There are so many places in Rocky Mountains
Where warm waters temporarily halt.
And continue on their journey in a direction certain
To carve a deep valley in a canyon down.

In Ben Gate’s “National Treasure” movie
The required key was Silence Dogood’s Letters.
In Forrest Fenn’s “Thrill of the Chase” groovy
The focused key is no shortcut Big Picture.

Many searchers went out of the hinted street,
And ended up at places far from the chest.
Some lucky ones came as close as 200 feet,
But was that all they could do their best?

There once was an old man named MajinKing
Who was destined to prove his name worthy.
He was wise to solve the poem like The King
And he finally claimed his prize at seventy.

Once again, Happy 89th Birthday, Mr. Forrest Fenn !!!

I have been enjoying my armchair solving very much and am expecting to be on my first and only (possibly) BOTG next summer to retrieve your chest. I will be seventy and you will be 90, but I hope that you will be ever so strong and ever so wise. Thank you very much.

Please DO NOT share another clue f. You don’t want everyone to know where your secret spot is do you? I know the area where I search is special to myself and I don’t want anyone going in and leaving trash around. Have a Happy Birthday f. I hope you don’t get all choked up with all of the birthday wishes. Now go out and find something to help you blow all of them candles. Maybe you can get some of those nimble little grand kids to help. You can teach them that sometimes blowing can make a fire even bigger and to be safe with fire. There is always opportunity to teach and learn I reckon. Anyway, please go to sleep with a smile upon your face and dream of being a pirate and saying are. Oh yeah, make a face while saying it. That’ll be fun enough to get that smile going.

Happy Birthday Forrest! That is one fine fish line in your photo. Looks like it was a great fishing trip. Best Wishes for a wonderful birthday and a great year ahead! Thanks for this great adventure, Chase Fan

Happy Birthday Forrest!!! If your birthday theme this year is fish here is a link to my favorite Chase song somebody found that has a lot of Fish in it (Sorry I can’t remember who found it but I adopted it for BOTG)

ff celebrate
sooo, good to be off the umbilical, &
breathing air. EH???
No, hugs, kisses or warm and fuzzy platitudes from me.
YA OL PIRATE.
Have a snort of Jackie’s special for both of us.
Batty batpoop aviation

Happy Birthday Mr. Fenn,
I hope your having the best birthday ever!
Thank you for all you do, May you have many more birthdays to come and wish I had your bracelet to give ya on your very Special day!!
I just love the Trill I’ve experienced in you and the chase! May God continue to bless you and your family, thank you so much for TTOTC!
It’s been a true life changer for me!!
Your truly a beautiful soul! 89 rules!!
♥️

Having met Forrest a few times, I don’t think this is simply about legacy as much as it is about avoiding an abundance of wasted leisure time and teaching others how to survive the next technologically induced wave of abundance of leisure time.

Notice many retired searchers have found a new calling if life, a new purpose. This was one of his reasons I am sure.

Happy birthday Mr. Fenn, we just took our family on the second hunt, over 3000 miles this trip. It was a ‘memories of a lifetime’ experience. Thank you for the memories with our family.
I hope you get 89 more, just easier.

Happy Birthday, Mr. Fenn. I realize it’s kinda late (probably not “day” in Santa Fe, as it’s
already night in California). I wish you all the best in health, happiness, and all related things.
And the same for Peggy. We don’t hear much about her lately.

Thank you for the great adventure you have created for so many people. Please don’t give
us more clues or hints. I don’t think they’re necessary (but I admit that when I see a little bit
of teasing, I appreciate it). May your continued travel along this highway of life be trouble-
free, interesting, and enjoyable. And speaking of which, I’m not gonna mention your age.

Happy Birthday Forrest, Hope you had a great day. Thanks for always challenging our imaginations and letting us escape from our complicated lives, even if just for a little bit each day. Always look forward to seeing your new posts. Someday one of us will figure this all out, but until then, Keep Fishing, (God subtracts the time put in fishing you know), at least that’s what I’m betting on.

Dear Forrest,
Whether you are touching the clouds or wetting your hooks, climbing a mountain or nose in a book.
A treasure you hid and had to be fair, but nothing you’ve said kept me from pulling my hair!
You’re an amazing man, it’s easy to see, just pitch us a clue, I’m on bended knee!

A birthday is the best day of the year, and I hope yours was a great one!
Much respect and love,.
Donna M.
¥Peace¥

well, he’s 89 and almost 90 i think thats so funny.
he hid a chest and called it a treasure…i wish i could be clever like that.
Happy birthday Forrest Fenn, and for your gift lil ole me decided to save the planet just for you. heres how-

i was going to write a book and save the planet. but i decided not to. someone else can do it. i dont want the money nor the fame that comes along with it. the premise is this- the devil at home in hell notices that the flames of hell dont burn as hot as they used to. someone is stealing his fuel. he comes to the surface to find out that humans are pumping his oil out and using it for their own gain. the humans must be stopped.
since world leaders wont listen to the scientists about global warming, maybe a best selling book and then movie will convince them to stop burning fossil fuels.
this how we got to the moon, by imagination first and then knowledge later.

Yeah, as some suggest, maybe, the 90 feels like this celebration more than the 89 has a feeling.

Or I’m distracting from my tardiness, as if, ‘I’m not late for this year, I’m early for next year.’

Now something sorta different, (changing the conversation, add distraction on distraction, so no one notices I’m late), the day Forrest was born (around 2pm CST, I figure), was barely 30 hours before New Moon. As I type this we are 40 or so hours before New Moon.
People, be safe, this weekend, this holiday. The next few days look to me to bring large scale difficulties. (Neutral words — ‘scale,’ ‘difficulty’ — to avoid saying scary words. Example: I got a tenant eviction notice yesterday, a betrayal, and I have no place to go. Forward, brave or foolish.) Maybe an example is somewhat a hurricane aiming toward Miami ‘this weekend’ they say.

But next year looks to me to be stronger of this sort. (Not to say, ‘worse.’)
If you are out of an evening now, perhaps notice bright Jupiter overhead about midnight as it approaches sulphur-hued Saturn you see as well, 30° arc east from Jupiter. (Only stars twinkle to our eyes, planets don’t twinkle — that’s how to spot them.)
Jupiter laps Saturn every 20 years. It signals very propitious times. Presidents then don’t finish their terms, according to Tenskwatawa. (Just a few search terms for the further curious.)

I’m sure this was a happy weeklong birthday. Yet I expect happier is coming next…year…time.

Forrest, scroll through this mass of birthday comments and see and know how great is our love affection and caring for you. It’s big. It’s great. It’s amazing. Truly, here in 2019, so rare, so awesome.

Thrill in the chase, be reborn in the grace. Best wishes and warmest regards to you, Mr. Making Life Happen. Marvel of us all